Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1. A Fall Sunset In Vermont – For this lighting, I wanted to get the lighting from one direction since the sun was setting, so I put it on the SR side. I used three different colors for the orangey light to get some variation. I also added in some blue light since I noticed that in a lot of sunsets, there’s a decent amount of blue light present as well as the orange. The cyc is a deeper orange-red color to give an idea of the fall leaves

2. An Easter Sunrise In A Gothic cathedral – I also wanted to incorporate the single direction of light into this design, but I was also thinking about how the light is warped and changed when it goes through stained glass windows. For these lights, I used a lot of different colors of light through a gobo to get a sort of marbled or stained glass effect. Then, I used a window gobo to make it seem like the light was coming in a window. I also wanted to incorporate the inside lighting of the cathedral itself, so there’s some white-ish, grayish lighting up high and on the cyc

3. Noon On A Hot Summer Day In The Caribbean – For this lighting, I did several lights (warmer white) all focused on the person to get the bright, sunny effect. Then, I did some wider beams to get the effect of sand and warmth. I also used blue lights from downstage and on the cyc to give the effect of a bright blue sky

4. Winter Afternoon Just Before The Snow – On this scene, I wanted to get across that the sun is blocked by clouds, so to achieve this effect I tried two things. First, I put a gobo on most of the lights that reach the floor to indicate that the light is broken up by the clouds. This also creates an effect that looks fairly snowy. I also used really wide beams to spread this effect as far as I could. To make the stage look cold, I used blue lights on the person themself and on the cyc